Jo Brocklehurst was an artist I looked at for this project. Her work focuses on the punk/new romantic scene as well. Her work is very Egon Schiele like in the way the figures are proportioned and composed. I think her work really gets across a good idea of youth culture. Other than the purely aesthetic components such as the hair and clothes I think this is mainly down to the composition of the figures. They all look effortless and casual in there stances but in a way that makes them seem posed at the same time, as if quite a bit of though has gone into how look as relaxed or not interested as possible. Also in these drawings the figures are generally no making eye contact looking down or turned away. There is however another sort of composition to her work (though not much of it), some of her figures go for almost the opposite. They embrace a blatant pose and/or make direct confrontational eye contact with the viewer. The ironic thing about his is those obviously posing probably put a lot less effort and time into there pose than those seeming disinterested. This go me thinking about how important pose can be to representing a subculture and how slight changes to a pose can change the meaning the figure conveys entirely.

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